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Gauhar Jaan was the first Indian singer to become a recording superstar. Gauhar Jaan was the first Indian singer whose songs were recorded at 78rpm. It was released by the Gramophone Company of India and resulted in her being known as "the Gramophone girl".
Reading the correspondence pages from the early 1940s is to be genuinely moved by not only the absolutely essential nature of music in the lives of so many soldiers, sailors and airmen, but how The Gramophone had created its own tight-knit community